Example sentences of "[pron] said a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said a gentle slope , not the north bloody face of the Eiger ! ’ |
| 2 | Yes No I said a hundred and forty |
| 3 | that 's a funny thing on the phone when he said about paying I said a hundred a six pound complete so I said and do n't give me a cheque cos I do n't want one ! |
| 4 | Now Lynne Taylor is Regional Executive for the Chest , Heart and Stroke Association , Lynne er is it , this is er as I said a new week , are , you hopeful that it 's , it 's working well ? |
| 5 | Yesterday he joined a service at Bradford cathedral and said : ‘ Being a cricket lover , I said a small prayer for a solution to the unfortunate crisis . |
| 6 | I said a large mug of strong , sweet tea would do the job and she agreed , adding that it was the best thing ‘ after a shock ’ . |
| 7 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 8 | I said a topless male and a topless woman calendar , it 's not quite the same is it ? |
| 9 | I said a silent farewell to my beautiful Tudor doll 's house , my gleaming two-wheeler Raleigh , my blackboard and desk , doll 's pram and crib , my pink eiderdown and basket chair — all the remnants of a privileged childhood — and off we went . |
| 10 | ‘ When I rang up Decin late in the evening and heard that the picture had made its last journey back home in the company of highly explosive gas containers , I said a silent prayer and sang halleluia three times ’ , said the dowager Fürstin Zita von Thun-Hohenstein . |
| 11 | it was , it was all tough weather scale of six , on , you know , and I said what , how much is that up there ? , and he said ten shillings , I said a little bit dear i n't it ? , cos ten shilling then was ten shilling |
| 12 | As I said a smiling ‘ Sorry ’ , he asked , ‘ Is there going to be a war in Europe , do you think ? ’ |
| 13 | Well I said a rude word . |
| 14 | I said a few moments ago that I would not exclude consideration or the need for consideration of the greenbelt purposes served . |
| 15 | ‘ I said a few words to Miss Mallender — Miss Heather Mallender , that is — at her sister 's funeral , last year . |
| 16 | I am sure that the Minister will recall that I said a few moments ago that in our view the role of regional government is not delivery of services . |
| 17 | I said a few words . |
| 18 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 19 | somebody said a little cake . |
| 20 | She blushed because of his quizzical look which said a great deal and turned everything topsy turvy and her knees to water , leaving her in a worse confusion . |
| 21 | She said a real man is someone who knows what he 's about , who knows himself and can be relaxed about himself , and I think the same could be said about the ideal guest . |
| 22 | Erm she was in India and I wanted to go and she said a Hindi course at A T R in Zurich . |
| 23 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 24 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 25 | She said a black man had made an obscene suggestion to her outside the ladies ’ loo . ’ |
| 26 | I think add them together , well there was an old woman of about fifty , sixty , she said a hundred and twenty eight , well he said you 're one out madam , a hundred and twenty nine , well they were amazed themselves , the girl said well a hundred and twenty eight |
| 27 | That would be expecting too much , surely , but she said a small prayer to herself that it might be so . |
| 28 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 29 | Oh she said a few days ago about some bungalow or something he 's he 's helping to build . |
| 30 | She was holding my fob watch and she said a few things about this , and about us and about dead people and |